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Russine

Russine is the obsolete form of Rusyn.

Meaning of Rusyn

Noun

Rusyn (plural Rusyns)

  1. A member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.
  2. (archaic) An ethnonym for East Slavic people - any of Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, an inhabitant of Kievan Rus, Muscovy, etc., an Orthodox, East Slavic inhabitant of Rzeczpospolita.

See all 4 meanings of Rusyn

Forms of Russine

pluralRussines

Questions about Russine

What is Russine the obsolete form of?
Russine is the obsolete form of Rusyn.

Words near Russine in the dictionary

  1. Russifiers
  2. Russifies
  3. Russify
  4. Russifying
  5. Russignon
  6. Russine
  7. Russio-
  8. Russis
  9. Russism
  10. Russisms
  11. russist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Russine (page history and authors); Rusyn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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